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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 18, 1987
Filed:
Jun. 03, 1986
Applicant:
Inventors:
James A Zils, Parma, OH (US);
Radoslav Markovic, Maple Heights, OH (US);
Assignee:
RB & W Corporation, Mentor, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65B / ; B65B / ; B65B / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
53469 ; 53437 ; 53475 ; 53244 ; 53567 ; 53525 ;
Abstract
An improved method and apparatus is provided to load articles, such as nuts, into a tube. The nuts are fed into the tube from a bowl of vibratory feeder. In order to maintain the mass being vibrated constant during the feeding of the nuts into the tube, the tube and the bowl are vibrated together. Since the tube and the bowl are vibrated together, the nuts are vibrated when they are in the tube to move the nuts along the tube and to maintain the number of nuts being vibrated constant as the tube is filled with nuts. The tube is advantageously coiled and supported on the bowl.